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Nearest Communities to Hesnault,
Listed County-By-County

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Hesnault, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Hesnault:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Hesnault is located in Ward County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Ward County: Burke, McHenry, McLean, Mountrail & Renville.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hesnault. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Ward County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Hesnault (which is Ward County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Hesnault

For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • Ward County   (where Hesnault resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.ward.nd.us/
    • County Seat for Ward:   Minot
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hesnault   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hesnault.
      • Drady
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Drady is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drady
      • Ryder
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • South Prairie
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • South Prairie is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Prairie
      • Makoti
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Douglas
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Des Lacs
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Ralston
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Ralston is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ralston
      • Burlington
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Lonetree
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Minot
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Logan
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Logan is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
      • Berthold
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Foxholm
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
          • Foxholm is located in Ward County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxholm
        • Sawyer
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Surrey
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Ruthville
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Ruthville is located in Ward County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruthville
        • Hartland
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Hartland is located in Ward County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
        • Carpio
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • McHenry County
  • McLean County
    • County Website:   https://www.mcleancountynd.gov/
    • County Seat for McLean:   Washburn
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hesnault   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hesnault.
      • Max
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Max is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Max
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 348 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Max <3>
      • Roseglen
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Benedict
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Emmet
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Emmet is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmet
      • Garrison
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • White Shield
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • White Shield is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Shield
      • Raub
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Raub is located in McLean County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raub
  • Mountrail County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hesnault) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking.

We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now.

Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.